The Green European Foundation is organising a two day seminar aimed at “untangling” the jargon around the Euro-crisis, analysing the factors that have led to the current situation and the different manifestations of the crisis in Europe (inside the Euro-zone and beyond) and at discussing the various Green proposals put forward as ways out of the crisis.

Context

The financial and economic crisis is without a doubt the main political subject currently discussed at all levels of decision making. The Greens at the European level have been very vocal in expressing their analyses of the current crisis and are proposing the Green New Deal as a way out of the crisis. The discussions around the crisis remain however highly specialized, even for those dealing with politics on an everyday basis.

The past weeks have shown dramatic changes in the nature of the crisis almost from one day to the next. With the upcoming European Summit on the 9th of December and with demonstrations against austerity measure planned throughout the EU, the situation will most likely continue to change at a rapid pace. This workshop will certainly make use of the latest information available, but our overall aim is to focus on the bigger trends and underlying causes of the crises, as well as on the large scale solutions to it, rather than on the daily situational changes.  

Seminar set-up

After the workshop, the participants should be familiarised with the current state of affairs of the European sovereign debt crisis, as well as the Green proposals to tackle it. In this sense, the two working days will be divided as follows: on the first day, we will focus on the diagnosis of the current situation, particularly the structural causes behind the crisis and its manifestations, while on the second day we’ll detail the Green proposals to tackle the crisis, starting from the Paris Declaration and the Green New Deal. 

The call for participants for this seminar was closed on Monday, December 19th at 12.00 CET. Participants are currently being selected.